kaldonia / robertalab

The programming environment »Open Roberta Lab" by Fraunhofer IAIS enables children and adolescents to program robots. A variety of different programming blocks are provided to program motors and sensors of the robot. Open Roberta Lab uses an approach of graphical programming so that beginners can seamlessly start coding. As a cloud-based application, the platform can be used without prior installation of specific software but runs in any popular browser, independent of operating system and device.

Open Roberta Lab

Build status:

• master
• develop

Introduction

The steps below explain how to get started with your own deployment of the OpenRoberta programming environment.

After a fresh git clone you get the robertalab project folder. It includes everything you need to setup and extend your own browser programming environment. License information is available in the docs folder.

Things you need on your computer:

• Java 1.8
• Maven >= 3.2
• Git
• Web browser

If you would like the server to compile code for the different systems, you need to install additional software:

for linux:

• Arduino based robots
• sudo apt-get install libusb-0.1-4
• sudo apt-get install gcc-avr binutils-avr gdb-avr avr-libc avrdude
• NXT
• sudo apt-get install nbc
• Calliope
• sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi srecord libssl-dev
• micro:bit
• pip install uflash

for windows:

• Calliope
• install gcc-arm-none-eabi (see: http://gnuarmeclipse.github.io/toolchain/install/)
• install srecord (see: http://srecord.sourceforge.net/)
• micro:bit
• install python
• pip install uflash

Please also check our wiki for detailed installation instructions, development procedure, coding conventions and further reading. We also use the github issue tracking system. Please file issues in the main project robertalab.

Fast installation with maven

Step 1: Clone the repository and compile

git clone git://github.com/OpenRoberta/robertalab.git
cd robertalab/OpenRobertaParent
mvn clean install

Get a coffee! Might take a couple of minutes.

A successful build looks like:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO] 
[INFO] RobertaParent ...................................... SUCCESS [  1.323 s]
[INFO] Resources .......................................... SUCCESS [  0.033 s]
[INFO] OpenRobertaRobot ................................... SUCCESS [ 16.520 s]
[INFO] RobotEV3 ........................................... SUCCESS [ 19.235 s]
[INFO] RobotNXT ........................................... SUCCESS [ 17.004 s]
[INFO] RobotArdu .......................................... SUCCESS [ 17.060 s]
[INFO] RobotNAO ........................................... SUCCESS [  7.106 s]
[INFO] RobotMbed .......................................... SUCCESS [  7.271 s]
[INFO] OpenRobertaServer .................................. SUCCESS [01:52 min]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 03:18 min
[INFO] Finished at: 2016-12-21T16:52:55+01:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 52M/414M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Step 2: Make sure you have a database

If you have a fresh clone of the server, make sure that the OpenRobertaServer folder has a subfolder db with the database inside. You can either

• copy the folder dbBase (also in OpenRobertaServer) under the name db-2.2.0

• or create an empty an empty database with

  ./ora.sh --createemptydb OpenRobertaServer/db-2.2.0/openroberta-db (from the root folder)

If you update the server with git pull, your database will not be changed.

Step 3: Starting your own server instance using a unix-like shell (on either lin* or win*).

cd .. # return to the root folder
./ora.sh --start-from-git # start the server using default properties

You can also run ./ora.sh --help for more options.

Step 4: Accessing your programming environment

Start your browser at: http://localhost:1999

That's it!

Development notes

You can follow the test status on https://travis-ci.org/OpenRoberta/.

Development happens in the 'develop# branch. Please sent PRs against that branch.

git clone git://github.com/OpenRoberta/robertalab.git
cd robertalab
git checkout -b develop origin/develop

Blockly

We are using Blockly as a submodule. The build of the blockly is only done in the OpenRoberta/Blockly project and then copied to the OpenRobertaServer/staticResources. You can not build Blockly in OpenRobertaServer project directly.